MetaPost Four lanes of misery

Where did this come from ? Not much to guess here. A frustrated driver feeling miserable - watching people shamelessly filling up the wrong sides of roads.

"India lives in its villages" said Gandhi.

I think in the 21st century "India will on its roads". People would have migrated from villages settle along the road sides while the rest of us will be stuck in traffic on the roads !
I am sometimes amazed that many of us still manage to be sane after all the crazy driving on the roads !!

Metapost Munnar Trip

The html file was dated November 28 2000

The header in the file had the following note -

Oct 21-23 2000, the CT team went to Munnar. This is an account of some of
the events on that trip. This was sent out in 2 parts through e-mail to the
ctgrp mailing alias and was liked by many.

MetaPost Vertical Wit

The date on the text file containing this ascii art was June 20 2001.

The context ? I was struggling to bring a travel story (a nomadic nugget :) to close and had this idea of having an ascii art comic strip which I decided to lay out vertically and call 'Vertical Wit' (instead of Horizontal Humour ? :) This was the first and last strip that was done - vertical for sure but not much wit. Of course the characters were 'copy-pasted' from the web - only the text was typed by me.

Probably when I get some more time, I should revive this.
Which reminds me - saw this library called libasciiart or something of that sort on a linux box. Probably a program that generates these strips from some sort of description ... or maybe it just pulls out random text from the web and uses them ...

Hmmm ... sounds interesting ...

MetaPost Ode

The date on the html file is Oct 13 2001. I think I wrote it around that time.
Of course, I was onsite then.

So one feature that can help is if one can back post blogs on past dates. Not sure if is supported by this or any other blogging software.

MetaPost Meeting

The rhyme on meeting was bourne out of countless hours spent in them.
The opening lines have an obvious inspiration from Shakespeare's lines -

" ... a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ..."

The spirit of the rhyme is probably inspired by the following quotation that I came across sometime back -

Chyrsanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

Meta MetaPost

MetaPost - Post that talk about other posts. Like metadata, metaclass etc.

So this is a meta metapost - post on metaposts.

I have decided to use metaposts to explain the background for some of the posts. This one is to explain the concept itself.

MetaPost - Tolerance

The rant on tolerance was triggered by an column that I read in The Hindu on Aug 12 2007. I decided to respond with a contribution to the same section in the newspaper. So spent some in diligently writing down my thoughts. Then composed an email and sent it out to the email id provided. A response came back the same evening regretting the fact that they could not use it.

I was trying to figure out the reasons for the rejection. Further questioning on the email id seems futile as noone has responded so far.

Probably they did not find the quality upto the mark. Or it was too critical of the original column. Another likely reason was thrown up when I saw the last Sunday's edition - another reader had contributed a column responding to the same article. That probably settles the issue.
Anyway my first contribution to a newspaper column ends in a little bit of a disappointment.

But it does end up on this blog - so hopefully someone other than me will also get to read it :-)